A book of quotations can never be complete. [ Robert M. Hamilton ]

Yukio Mishima – dignity of life

« We tend to suffer from the illusion that we are capable of dying for a belief or theory. … that even in merciless death, a futile death that knows neither flower nor fruit has dignity as the death of a human being. If we value so highly the dignity of life, how can we not also value the dignity of death? No death may be called futile. » ~Yukio Mishima on Hagakure : The Samurai Ethic and Modern Japan (1977)

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Monette Hernandez – dignity of the Filipino "My pride as a Filipino has always been there, but it lay dormant. It sparked from time to time but it lay buried under the colonial persona that loved everything American. Who would have thought that a septuagenarian, a foul-mouthed Bisaya, a maong-corduroy loving small-time mayor will be the one to fire up that dormant nationalism and finally make me truly proud that I am…